Improvement in toy pistols



EDVARD SAVORAL, OF NEW YOVRK,IIN. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOY PISTOLS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171

September To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDVARD SAVORAL, of New York, in the county and Stateof New York, have invented certain Improvements in Toy Fire-Arms; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same.

My invention relates to that class of toy firearms in which a fulminateribbon or tape is employed for producing an explosion.

The invention consists in a novel construcon, arrangement, and operationof a chamber or magazine for holding the fulminate-ribbon; a device forfeeding the ribbon from the magazine to the point of explosion; and alock mechanism for operating the feeding device by the cooking of thehammer.

The toy fire-arm is similar in general form and appearance to a gun orpistol provided with a single barrel and a revolving cylinder. rim orband 6. (See Figs. 2 and 3.) The ful- The portion between the stock andbarrel, minate-ribbon Fis provided with perforations which resembles thecylinder, is constructed f for the purpose hereinafter described. Thisto contain the magazine and the ribbon-feeding device, and is providedwith a cap or casing, which is removable in order to afford access tothe parts. The fulminate is arranged in a coil with its axis parallelwith the barrel, and is fed transversely to the length of the barrel bymeans of a wheel carried by a spindle, to which is attached a ratchetwhich receives motion from a pawl operated by the hammer. The feedingdevice is provided with a brake to prevent it from turning too loosely,and with a spring-pawl to prevent retrograde motion, and the pawl whichrotates the feed ing device is provided with a spring to insure itsproper engagement with the feed-ratchet. The cap or casing may be hingedso as to be opened without entirely removing it.

The accompanying drawing represents a toy pistol constructed accordingto my invention.

Figure l is a side view, with the cap or casing in section. Fig. 2 is alongitudinal horizontal section taken in the line a: as of Fig.1 Fig. 3is a transverse vertical section taken in the line 3 y of Fig. l. Fig. 4is a transverse vertical section taken in the line 2 z of Fig. 1 Fig. 5is a detail view.

The stock A and barrel B are of the usual form, and the portion betweenthem is covered With a cap or casing, G, wh when in place,

The rear part, D

,430, dated December 21,1875; application filed 28, 1875.

resembles in form and general appearance the revolving cylinder of anordinary pistol. The cap or casing O is removable in order to allowaccess to the interior portion,- which portion may be made in one piecewith the stock, or attached thereto in any suitable manner. This portionis of a length about double the Width of the fulminate-ribbon, and isdivided by a suitable partition, 01,. into two parts, D D. In theforward part, D is the chamber or magazine E, the sides of which areformed by a rim or band, 6, the rear end by the partition d, and thefront end by the cap or casing U when it is in place. Thefulminate-rjbbon F is rolled into a coiland placed in the magazine withone end protruding therefrom through an opening, 6 and. passing aroundthe feed-wheel, with the face of which it is held in contact by thepressure of the elastic forked end 6* of the ribbon is not claimed inthis a is made the sub pplication, but ject of another application. hasits rear side formed by a circular plate, 01 which forms the rear end ofthe cylinder when the cap 0 is in place. In the partition d and disk orplate d a spindle, G, has its bearings, said spindle being arrangedparallel with the barrel B. On the front end of the spindle, forward ofthe partition d, is the feed-wheel H, on the face of which are teeth,pins, or projections h for engagement with the perforations in theribbon, by which means the accurate feeding of the ribbon is insured.

On the rear portion of the partition 61 and plate 01 is a ratchet-wheel,I, having its teeth '5 corresponding in number and distance apart withthe projections on the feed-wheel. The ratchet-wheel I is provided witha brake, consisting of a V-shaped spring, J, one branch of which issecured to the connecting-plate d" between the partition d and disk W,and the other branch bears against the face of the ratchet-wheel, andthus prevents it from being rotatedtoo easily. The ratchet-wheel I isalso provided with a springpawl, K, one end of which is secured to theconnecting-plate 61*, and the other end engages with the teeth 1' toprevent a retrograde movethe spindle, between ment of the ratchet. (SeeFig. 4.) The hammer M and trigger M are of the usual construction, andmay both be operated by a U- shaped spring, N, serving as mainspring andtrigger-spring.

0n one'side of the interior of the stock a lever, P, is pivoted, soas'to oscillate in a plane parallel with that of the hammer. The frontend of this lever works in a slot in the plate or disk d and engageswith the ratchetteeth i. In its rear end is a fork, notch, or slot, 12,with which engages a pin or stud, m, projecting laterally from one sideof the hammer M. The lever P lies flat against the side of the stock,but is elastic, so that it may be forced outward therefrom, the side ofthe stock bythe pressure of a spring, which may be of any suitabledescription, but is here shown as an inverted V-shaped spring, R,arranged in front of the hammer, with one end fixed and the otherbearing against the outer side of the lever.

The toy fire-arm, constructed as above described, operates as followsWhen the hammer is drawn back to cook the piece, the pin or stud m,working in the notch or slot 1), elevates the rear end of the leverP anddepresses the front end. which by its engagement with a tooth, i,rotates the ratchet 1 until another tooth has reached the end of thespring-pawl K, soas to prevent the ratchet from recedin g. This movementbrings the hammer to a cooked position, and at the same time theengagement of the feed-wheel H with the fulminateribbon uncoils saidribbon and feeds it transversely of the barrel through an opening in thecap C, so as to bring one of the fulminatepellets immediately over theanvil sto receive the blow of the hammer. When the trigger is pulled andthe hammer descends to explode the fulminate-pellet, the front end ofthe lever It is held against P slides over the back of the next tooth 5,and is forced by the spring B into engagement with the face of thetooth, so as to further rotate the ratchet and spindle, and feed theribbon when the hammer is again raised to a cooked position. The feedingmechanism may be arranged on either side of the pistol, and feed ineither direction. If desired, the spindle Gr may extend through theplate d and be provided with a knob for turning it, so as to feed theribbon independently of the hammer.

What I claim as.new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a toy fire-arm, a ribbon chamber or magazine of circular orapproximate form, having its axis parallel with the axis of the barrelto provide for the feeding of a coil of fulminate-ribbon in a directiontransverse to the-barrel, substantially as herein described.

2. The combination, withafire-arm, in which fulminate-ribbon isemployed, of a rotating feed-wheel, H, provided with teeth orprojecjection's h, substantially as and for the purpose hereindescribed.

3. The combination, spindle G, and feed-wheel H, of the lever P,

pivoted between its ends and having a fork or notch, 19, at its rearend, and the pin or stud m on the hammer M, working in said fork ornotch, whereby, on cooking the hammer, the feed-wheel is rotated, andthe ribbon is fed to the point of explosion, as herein shown anddescribed.

4. The combination, with the magazine and 1 feed mechanism, of theremovable cap 0, form'- ing a casing for the same, substantially asherein described.

EDVARD SAVORAL.

Witnesses:

MICHAEL RYAN, FRED. HAYNES.

with the ratchet I,

